Danish 1.54-metre telescope

The Danish 1.54-metre telescope, built by Grubb–Parsons, has been in use at
La Silla since 1979. It was completely overhauled in 1993 and is now equipped
with the Danish Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera instrument. The
telescope has allowed astronomers to make several first discoveries. In 2005
astronomers showed that short, intense bursts of gamma-ray emission most likely
originate from the violent collision of two merging neutron stars, ending a long
debate (eso0533). In 2006, astronomers using
a network of telescopes scattered across the globe, including the Danish
1.54-metre Telescope, discovered an exoplanet only about five times as massive
as the Earth, and circling its parent star in about ten years (eso0603). This telescope has also been used to
produce many impressive astronomical images.